When
we as conservatives finish creating our posters and holding them high
at tea parties and town hall meetings—of which both are necessary,
when we finish surfing the net and posting to Facebook and twitter, when
we finish getting our Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly fix, of which
all such activity serves its purpose, we must then arise to the level
of participation and encourage and empower people to take up the role
of representing the people again by running for office. For some of us
this is the mandate; for others, the mandate is to support the candidates
with time, money and other important resources.

When
the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked
beareth rule, the people mourn. (Proverbs 29:2)

The
righteous has little to do with politics, as we understand it in today’s
paradigm— although they should. They must be activated, and if God
will show the same mercy that He demonstrated toward our Founding Fathers,
they will. Unfortunately, to our own detriment, we have allowed politics
to become a professional career choice by unqualified and unconcerned
individuals who are driven by financial reward and prestige, rather than
virtue and principle. Through the neglect of the people, we have allowed
crooks to take positions of power that rob us by a law. If we are to make
good use of our current dismay with government, we will only do so by
activating natural aristocracy.

Thomas
Jefferson typified the Founders’ philosophy of social responsibility.
They strongly believed that the best citizens should accept major roles
in public life. They believed people with talent and demonstrated qualities
of leadership should have the same sense of duty as that which Washington
exhibited when he allowed himself to be called out of retirement three
separate times to serve the country. Jefferson referred to such people
as the nation’s “natural aristocracy.” He said it was
an aristocracy of virtue, talent, and patriotism without which the nation
could not survive. (Excerpt from The Five Thousand Year Leap)

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While
getting my dose of Glenn Beck yesterday, my jaw dropped (literally) when
he demonstrated on his famous blackboard the level of experienced workers
our presidents had on their staff. If the highest was 80%, Obama is 10%.
That means theoretically, one out of ten of his staff has experience in
what he or she has been assigned to do! This is an insult to the American
spirit of excellence, but also expected from a president who desires to
create a cradle to the grave government, and impose un-American, socialistic
agendas upon our nation.

Academics
were established as a liberal arts devised to teach people how to think
for themselves. Today they are the socialist’s tool chests to tell
people how to think instead. Obama’s troubles in hiring experienced
people are not because they don’t exist; it’s because they
don’t fit his ideology of a government ran society: control the
people.

Samuel
Adams puts forth words that we must heed should we capture the essence
of the American vision when he stated:

“But
neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty
and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore
is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote
its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not
suffer a man to be chosen not any office of power and trust who is not
a wise and virtuous man.” (Wells, Life of Samuel Adams)

I fear
we have allowed this. Until we repent of our own neglect and refuse the
glitter of gold that many times do not exist and place a value on our
own country, another system-produced politician will replace Obama. The
glitter has distracted us from our duty to serve! Not just in the armed
forces but in halls of congress. Who best to protect our troops but the
families of troops?

The
founders realized that if America was to have the best possible government,
it would have to create a process by which the best suited for the job
would ascend to the task. They knew without such a political process,
in time, our Constitution would be doomed, for it is the nature of men
to abuse power and be tempted to abuse the very people they serve.

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If you
are looking for a confirmation on rising to the task of serving, you have
it. If you are looking for a confirmation on supporting a principle-centered,
value driven candidate, you have it. It is the next logical step and it
is happening throughout the land. It is about time and I now can hear
our Founding Fathers rousing themselves with palms slapping tables, and
sticks pounding the floor declaring, “Hear! Hear!”

William
Owens is a husband of twenty-four years to Selena Owens, and also a father
of their four young adult children. He is President and co-founder of
the Multi-cultural Conservative Coalition, a non-partisan conservative
coalition comprised of people of various ethnicities and cultures who
espouse conservative and patriotic ideologies, and translate those beliefs
within society through a variety of platforms.

He
is the author of seven books including, Divine Protocol-The Order of God’s
Kingdom, Warriors Arise – Spiritual Life, Spiritual Warfare, Spiritual
Maturity, and the controversial work, Bastards in the Pulpit. His latest,
Obama: Why Black America Should Have Doubts is Owens’ first politically
themed work and is experiencing great success in this hour of political
transformation in America.

William
Owens is also founder of iTouch Publishers, celebrating sixteen years
of publishing relevant messages through books and newspapers to specialized
markets since 1994. His wife, Selena, is also an author. To date, they
have published a combined seventeen titles, and will be releasing their
national newspaper, Christian Life News, A Christian Worldview Publication
on the West Coast prior to year’s end.

He
is a sought after speaker both within and also outside the Christian arena,
and is a speaker and political activist touring with The Tea Party Express
for the second time throughout America.